Quiz 7 : Andrew Foster

Question 1

What school did he attend (not college)?

Answer 1

The Alabama school for the colored deaf in Talladega

Question 2

When did he lose his hearing?

Answer 2

Age 11

Question 3

What did he do when he was 17?

Answer 3

Moved to Michigan, taking night classes and working odd jobs

Question 4

When and were was he accepted to college?

Answer 4

Gallaudet University in 1951

Question 5

Why is his college enrollment significant?

Answer 5

One of the first 3 black deaf students to be enrolled at the school

Question 6

When attending Gallaudet, Foster noticed an address book saying what?

Answer 6

Of world deaf schools, only 12 were in Africa

Question 7

When did he get his bachelors?

Answer 7

1954

Question 8

Where did he get his masters? Second masters?

Answer 8

Eastern Michigan University

Seattle Pacific Christian College

Question 9

What did he found in 1956?

Answer 9

The Christian Mission for the Deaf (CMD)

Question 10

When did he go to Africa? What happened within a year?

Answer 10

1957. Established the first school for the Deaf in Accra, Ghana in a small room borrowed from a church

Question 11

How many students attended the first year?

Which quickly grew to?

Answer 11

12

53 students

Question 12

Meeting times of the first Deaf school in Accra, Africa?

Answer 12

4 to 5 for children

6-7 for adults

Question 13

With the school in Accra, Ghana, what happened by 1959? Five years later?

Answer 13

The school had a wait list of 100, then 300

Question 14

Foster did what before 1962?

Answer 14

Opened 3 more schools in Nigeria

Question 15

How many schools for the deaf did he establish? In how many countries?

Answer 15

31 schools in thirteen countries.

Question 16

What else did he found besides the 31 deaf schools (college wise)?

Answer 16

The African Bible College for the Deaf

Question 17

He became president of what?

Answer 17

The Council for the Education and Welfare of the Deaf in Africa

Question 18

Gallaudet University awarded him what? When?

Answer 18

The Honorary Doctorate in 1970

Question 19

Foster believed that freedom of communication was the key to ? And that freedom was achieved through ?

Answer 19

Key to education, achieved through sign language

Question 20

By 1974, there were how many deaf schools in Africa?

Answer 20

70

Question 21

Continuing his training through the 80s, Foster continue traveling the world speaking and fundraising for his cause, touching how many states? And how many African countries?

Answer 21

47 of 50 states

25 African counties

Question 22

How, when, and where did Andrew Foster die?

Answer 22

1987 he died at age 62 in a plane crash in Rwanda and was buried there

Question 23

What award recognizes excellence in teaching at their biennial conference?

Answer 23

The National Association of the Deaf’s Andrew J. Foster award

Question 24

Gallaudet University and the NBDA established what? That does what?

Answer 24

The Andrew Foster Endowment that offers scholarships to college-bound African American students

Question 25

There is what at Gallaudet university?

Answer 25

The Andrew Foster Auditorium, with a bronze bust of Foster installed in the front of the auditorium in 2004, a gift from the NBDA

Question 26

What is NBDA?

Answer 26

National Black Deaf Association

Question 27

How many schools are in Africa now?

Answer 27

Over 300

Question 28

Andrew Foster lived what years?

Answer 28

1925-1987

Question 29

Where was Foster born?

Answer 29

In a steel-mill town near Birmingham, Alabama.